| Barefoot Workshops Documentary Workshop |
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From Sunday, 18 July 2010
To Saturday, 14 August 2010
Every day |
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Barefoot Workshops is a New York City-based, non-profit organisation that teaches individuals and organisations how to use digital video, new media, and the arts to transform their communities and themselves. According to the organisers, this 4-week workshop being offered in Cape Town is designed for new documentary filmmakers who want to launch their careers in film and television documentaries or for those with experience in some aspects of filmmaking that are looking to expand their skill, understanding, and mastery of the whole process. The class is structured for individuals who are interested in mixing travel, social activism, and HDV documentary filmmaking.
The workshop combines lectures and presentations with supervised and formal instruction in production laboratories (camera, lighting, sound, editing), shooting on location, transcribing, screening and discussion of current and classic documentaries, meetings with visiting filmmakers, and written assignments. It will also include lectures, screenings, presentations, technical demos, a review and critique of all dailies, and supervised editing sessions.
   
As part of the workshop participants will break into groups with each group producing a completed 7 to 10 minute piece shot on digital video and edited with Final Cut Pro. Students will meet and scout their subjects and write treatments and outlines to guide their production. Then they will conduct interviews, tape B-roll and coverage for a sequence, record sound, and take their material into post-production. Students will be instructed in creating first an edit on paper, then on the computer, followed by assembly into a final edit. They will colour correct, mix sound, and add titles to their finished work. According to Barefoot Workshops, there are wide range of possible topics to be covered during the workshop which include the following:
- Environment
- Cuisine
- HIV/AIDS
- Music
- Agriculture
- Orphans
- Building
- Sustainable communities
- Civil rights
Click here to download more information about the workshop in PDF format.
“21st century literacy...includes the ability to understand the power of images and sounds, to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute them pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms. The ability to understand this power…is at the heart of this new literacy. An entire generation of digital natives across the globe appears to have receptive facility for this language, a phenomenon which offers us an unprecedented opportunity.”
—Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit
Registration Information
Producers, cinematographers, editors, and writers with narrative experience who are considering working in non-fiction filmmaking are encourage to enrol. This workshop is ideal for working professionals who want to develop skills which will allow them to work with other filmmakers. The tuition fee of the workshop is US$ 4,200 which does not include airfare and transportation. Housing and food costs for the month are covered.
Contact
Alison Fast
Barefoot Workshops
134 Haven Avenue
Apt. 6G
New York
NY 10032
United States
Tel: + 917 385 9343
Barefoot Workshops website
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Contact: Alison Fast |
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